every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..

The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Sunday, 7 April 2013

O! BEEHIVE O! BEEHIVE

It can be said effectively that
no one would ever have heard so many of words written in the mainstream Indian news
media on such an innocuous term ‘beehive’. After Rahul Gandhi drawn a ‘beehive’ analogy
to his India vision during Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s annual
general meeting on April 4, 2013, the term has become a buzzword, making
headlines, making political pundits to get more grandiose and getting
politicians to get more verbose.

Beehive – let’s see what the
Wikipedia has to say on its symbolism: “The beehive is a commonly used
symbol dating at least to Roman times. In medieval heraldry it was considered a
symbol of industry. In modern times, it is used in Freemasonry. In masonic lectures
is explained as symbol of industry and co-operation, and as cautioning against
intellectual laziness, warning that "he that will so demean himself as not
to be endeavoring to add to the common stock of knowledge and understanding,
may be deemed a drone in the hive of nature, a useless member of society, and
unworthy of our protection as Masons.”

What Narendra Modi said reacting
on Rahul Gandhi’s words on need of industriousness among the Indians? (Based on
an NDTV post):

“I happened to listen to a
speech by a Congress leader two days back, whose words are considered to be
very important for that party. I was deeply shocked and pained when he compared
India
to beehive. For you, this might be a beehive but for us this country is our
mother. The hundred crore people of this country are our brothers and sisters.
This is a sacred land of saints and seers. Friends from the Congress, please do
not insult our country. If you do not understand the language of people of India, go and
learn from somewhere. But due to your ignorance, do not try to destroy the
culture and tradition of this country.”

So what Rahul really said (or did
he realize what he wanted to say) that made Modi to react like this? – The
‘beehive’ reference could not be found in the press release on Rahul’s full
text in the CII event. But a report on the Daily Telegraph has put it like
this:

In a storyline resembling a TED
talk, he said - India
was like a ‘beehive’ buzzing with complexity and energy. The country's
challenge was to harness this hive of energy with better infrastructure and
education for all its 1.2 bullion people. The country's leaders were ‘sitting
on an unstoppable tide of human aspiration’, and must ‘provide roads on which
our dreams are paved’, but not roads which ‘have potholes, they can't break
down in six months’. The ‘complexity’ of
India's problems, he said,
alluding to corruption and slow bureaucracy, had in fact given its business
leaders a competitive advantage over rivals in the United
States and Europe who had
emerged from a more ‘simple’ environment.

“The beehive is a good
analogy, you are masters of complexity, this buzzing sound you don't like,
these newspaper stories which drive me nuts, this is your training, developing
you to deal with complexity. This is what's going to give you the competitive
advantage like nobody has ever had before. When you go out into the world and
you have dealt with this complexity and you're dealing with competitors in the United States, France
and Germany,
you are people trained in complexity dealing with people trained in simplicity.
I tell you who is going to win – you are going to win.”

What the ‘beehive’ symbolism as
defined by the Wikipedia (certainly based on credible sources) says could not
have been the essence of what Rahul Gandhi said though he could well have
intended for this only. Somewhere, the thoughts and the words got entangled, it
seems.

Even in common cultural
references, bees are referred to as an industrious species with a disciplined
work regime. A ‘beehive’ is a well-defined pattern of work efficiency.

In his speech, Rahul, on one
side, seems to talk about this symbolism (of industry and co-operation),
but on the next moment he contradicts it with referring it to ‘the
complexity of the beehive’ with negative intones making the negativity a
motivator of the ‘competitive advantage’ over the businessmen of the
developed economies (he was addressing a gathering of Indian business leaders).

To add the misery (and sadly,
truly), the 1.2 billion Indians don’t represent ‘an unstoppable tide of human
aspiration’. To bring the billion strong Indians out of misery, we need to
be realistic. And the reality says, 80 per cent of these Indians don’t even
think to aspire after a point of time in their lives because they are crushed
by the requirements of survival in a System created and run by politicians like
Rahul Gandhi or Narendra Modi. Take any vital social indicator and see their
relevance in the lives of majority of the Indians – one is bound to see the
sorry stats and the status (minus the political manipulation of the
statistics). Mr. Gandhi, creates situations first where the majority of Indians
can feel free to aspire.

But, anyway, now the Congress
party had to swing to act and it came in colourful ways when Manish Tewari
said: “Beehive metaphor denoting energy diligence and cohesion completely
went over heads of some self appointed jingoists.” He further elaborated
his point in a tweet: “FYI One of the Avataras of Devi- Mother Goddess is
Bhramari the honey bee according to the Puranas Temple of goddess in
Uttarakhand” (Had Rahul’s speechwriters thought on this line? Were they
aware of this fact?)

Then we had yet another Congress
party’s obvious presence at such occasions. Let’s see what Kapil Sibal had to
say: “Public will give an answer to this in the 2014 election. There are
people in this country which I don't want to name but just want to say that
they lack in common sense.”

Narendra Modi’s jibe at ‘beehive’
was too in demeaning terms for something that signifies industriousness and collaboration.
It was more of political targeting than due to his concern over Rahul insulting
the mother India
imagery. This reflects in the BJP’s statement as told by one of its
spokespersons.

Balbir Punj response on the
episode: “The comparison made to a beehive is correct according to the
Congress. What is there in a beehive? There is a queen bee, and all the other
bees toil and gather honey, the taste of which is taken by the others and the
queen bee does not do any work. The Congress has only this imagination about
this country. What or who is the queen bee here? What is the honey here? But
the ordinary bees here are the country's common people for sure”.

So much demeaning for the
hard-working bees! Isn’t it? The queen bee (or the association of queen bees
collectively) should seriously think of filing defamation suit?

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